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<div>Hi Alden:</div>
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<div>Thanks for the great job taking the minutes and reporting them.
In the interest of full disclosure I would like the other discussions
to be part of the record if that is proper procedure. I think it
will help to clarify any misinterpretations of our meeting discussions
by those who were not able to attend the meeting.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Judy</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2">Hello YRHASC,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2">Below this message, I am pasting the draft minutes for your
meeting last night. I am also attaching the minutes as a Word
document. Please let me know if you have any trouble receiving either
of these.</font></blockquote>
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size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-2">I
welcome any corrections you may have. I also welcome any suggestions
for ways to make the minutes more useful to you.</font></blockquote>
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size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2">Although I took notes on your entire discussion, I recorded
only those discussions that resulted in an actual decision related to
the agenda item you were working on at the time. That means I left out
a lot of your good conversations about the spirit of the project and
the specific responsibilities of your committee. However, I will
happily work those in if you feel they should have a place in the
record.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-2">I
enjoyed working with all of you last night. It is a privilege to work
with such a dedicated group.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-2">I
wish you all a pleasant holiday if I don't see you
beforehand-</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-2">Alden</font></blockquote>
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size="-2"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Lucida Grande"
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Town of
Long Island<br>
Year Round Housing Application and Selection Committee<br>
Minutes, 19 December 2007</b></font><br>
<br>
Meeting called to order: 6:33 p.m. <br>
<br>
Members Present: John Billings (chair); Newell Stewart
(Selectman); Sandie Scheurman; Judy Paolini.<br>
<br>
Non-members present: Mark Greene (Housing Administrator); Michael
Floyd (Chair, Selectmen); Leah Doughty (Year-Round Housing Committee);
Tammy Hohn; Madeline Collinson; Meredith Sweet; Mary Nanos; Alden
Robinson (Island Institute Fellow).</blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Minutes of
previous meeting accepted unanimously. <br>
<br>
<b>Old Business: Review of eligibility and scoring criteria<br>
<br>
</b>The committee reviewed its draft application for the Year-Round
Housing program.<br>
<br>
Sandie Scheurman suggested three wording changes:</font><br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Times New Roman">Step seven on the list under
"Application Process": remove "applications valid for
one year". The committee decided to let the wording
stand.</font>
<li><font face="Times New Roman">Criterion two under "Selection
Criteria": remove "(proof of residency may be
required)". The committee agreed to remove.</font>
<li><font face="Times New Roman">Criterion three under "Selection
Criteria": change to read "signed pre-lease agreement from
Year-Round Housing Committee". The committee agreed to
change the wording.</font></ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"><u>Eligibility criterion #5: "Not a
current property owner":</u></font> Judy Paolini suggested
that the criterion be changed to allow applications only from people
who had never owned property in the past. Leah Doughty said that
the Maine State Housing Authority will classify people as
"first-time homebuyers" who have not owned property within
the past three years. </blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">The
committee discussed the possibility of handling property-ownership as
a scoring criterion instead of an eligibility criterion. Mark
Greene and Leah Doughty shared the YRHC's approach to the question:
although it would exclude some YRHC participants, the committee
decided to recommend that eligible applicants not own property at the
time of their application. </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">The
committee agreed to leave the criterion as "not a current
property owner". </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"><u>Eligibility criterion #1: "Pre-approval
for a mortgage on a YRHC house":</u></font> Leah
Doughty said that repeated requests for pre-approval will hurt a
person's credit score. John Billings said that if the committee
did not require an initial pre-approval with the application, some
time limit would need to exist to prevent otherwise-eligible
applicants from tying up the housing program if they are unable to get
credit. Sandie Scheurman said that the YRHASC was interested
primarily in the creditworthiness of an applicant, not so much in
whether that person was able to fund a house. John Billings agreed
that the YRHC was responsible for ascertaining the adequacy of the
applicant's funding for a specific house. However, the YRHASC
would still need to know the amount for which an applicant was
pre-qualified, as that would have a strong effect on his/her ability
to participate successfully.</blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">The
committee agreed that it needed more information from a banker.
Mark Greene suggested that the YRHC and YRHASC collaborate on
hosting a presentation on the 6th of February.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"><u>Scoring
criterion #6: Years of residency on island:</u></font> The
committee discussed several different options for this criterion.
John Billings said that a person who has spent his or her entire
life on the island should get the maximum number of points, and that a
person who has not lived his/her entire life on the island should not
be able to score the maximum. Mark Greene stressed that
prioritizing residency on the island was a way to ensure the applicant
would be a good fit for the program. </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Leah Doughty
suggested a "brackets" system, where a person who has lived
on the island for (for example) 3-6 years gets 5 points, for 6-12
years gets another 5 points, for 13+ years gets another 3 points.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Alden
Robinson suggested that the committee not worry about coming out with
a total number of points out of proportion to other criteria, as
the value of each criterion can be controlled after scoring using a
weighted average system.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">The
committee decided to award five points to applicants who have lived on
the island for the past five years, and then one point for every five
years on the island before that, up to a maximum of ten.
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"><u>Scoring
criterion #5: Number of people in household:</u></font> The
committee discussed whether the number of people in the household
should have a positive effect on an applicant's score. Mark
Greene said that while the YRHC's objective was not specifically to
prioritize families with children, it did want to get the maximum
"bang for the buck" by making its projects serve as many
people as possible. </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">The
committee decided to allot one point per each member of the household,
up to a maximum of five. However, they decided not to request
the names and relationships of the other household members from the
applicant. </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"><b>New
Business: </b></font>None</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Public
correspondence requesting agenda placement:
</b></font>None</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Public
written correspondence: </b></font>None</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Next
meeting: Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 6:30 p.m., Town
Hall.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Meeting
adjourned: 9:05 p.m. </font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Alden S.
Robinson</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Island
Institute Fellow</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Town of Long
Island, Maine</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">(207)
766-2336</font></blockquote>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
size="-1">arobinson@islandinstitute.org</font></blockquote>
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<div><font face="EnglishGrotesque-Light" color="#666633">judy
paolini<br>
tpda<br>
294 brackett street<br>
portland, me 04102<br>
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judyp@tpda.com<br>
207.871.1813</font></div>
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